杰克·高德

　　A year after her murder, the police re-open the case of Yvonne Harrison when they receive an anonymous letter implicating a burglar, Harry Repp, who is about to be released from prison. Supt. Strange assigns the case to DS Lewis, who is chafing at the bit awaiting his promotion to Inspector. Morse has been ill and has only just returned to work. He steps on Lewis' toes by involving himself in the case, but as the body count rises, Morse finds himself in charge of investigating a woman who had many affairs with many different men. When he learns that the dead men were in possession of large amount of cash, he suspects they were blackmailing her murderer.

　　Morlar, a second class writer, is brutally killed. His head is totally smashed. When Inspector Brunel, a French cop, working in an exchange program in London, and sergeant Duff look up in his appartment, Morlar comes back to life. He resistst all his violations, a medical sensation. The researches show, that all people, who hurt Morlar in any way, died thereafter in a strange way. Above all, to those people belong authorities, as his parents, teachers, priests. Morlar thought, he initiated ALL catastrophies on earth. When he asked Dr.Zonfeld for help and she didn't believe him, he let an airplane crash into a building. Why doesn't he die ? Does it have something to do with the Queen visitig Westminster AbbeY ? And Windscale ?

　　1944年，二战临近结束时，纳粹军队在波兰东部建立了三个关押死囚犯的集中营，其中一个就叫索比堡。另外有一个集中营发生了集体逃亡事件，因而看管索比堡集中营的官员发誓决不让这种事情发生在索比堡集中营。在这个充满酷刑的集中营里，逃跑却是唯一的出路。而更为严峻的是，如果有一伙囚犯逃跑，德国人将屠杀掉相应数量的囚犯。任何一次较大规模的逃亡将意味着负责的门卫和德方的政府官员性命不保。一个死囚犯却在这种看守异常严密的集中营里，率领600人集体越狱，其中300人成功，成为历史上的奇迹。